Bill Text: IL SB2966 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the State Finance Act. Re-creates the Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund. Provides a continuing appropriation of $5,000,000 adjusted for inflation from the General Revenue Fund to the Fund. Directs the Department of Transportation to annually distribute moneys received in the Fund without appropriation according to a specified formula. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-5)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-07-31 - Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB2966 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SB2966-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning finance.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 6z-69 as follows:
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6 | (30 ILCS 105/6z-69) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 6z-69. Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund. | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | (a) As soon as possible after July 1, 2016 2007 , and on | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | each July 1 thereafter until July 1, 2010 , the State Treasurer | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | shall transfer $5,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund. Beginning in 2017, the | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | amount of $5,000,000 shall annually be increased by the annual | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | unadjusted percentage increase (but not less than zero) of the | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by the | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | United States Department of Labor (United States city average, | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | all items, 1982-84 = 100) as reported on January 1 of that | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | year. If for any reason the aggregate appropriations made | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | available are insufficient to meet the total amount of transfer | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | required by this subsection, this subsection shall constitute a | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | continuing appropriation of all amounts necessary for these | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | purposes. The General Assembly may appropriate lesser amounts | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | by law. | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | (b) The Subject to appropriation, the Illinois Department |
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1 | of Transportation shall make lump sum distributions from the | ||||||
2 | Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund as soon as possible after | ||||||
3 | each July 1 from all federal and other moneys received to the | ||||||
4 | recipients and in the amounts specified in subsection (c). The | ||||||
5 | recipients must use the moneys for comprehensive regional | ||||||
6 | planning purposes. | ||||||
7 | (c) Each year's distribution under subsection (b) shall be | ||||||
8 | as follows: (i) 70% to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for | ||||||
9 | Planning (CMAP); (ii) 25% to the State's other Metropolitan | ||||||
10 | Planning Organizations (exclusive of CMAP), each Organization | ||||||
11 | receiving a percentage equal to the percent its area population | ||||||
12 | represents to the total population of the areas of all the | ||||||
13 | State's Metropolitan Planning Organizations (exclusive of | ||||||
14 | CMAP); and (iii) 5% to the State's Rural Planning Agencies, | ||||||
15 | each Agency receiving a percentage equal to the percent its | ||||||
16 | area population represents to the total population of the areas | ||||||
17 | of all the State's Rural Planning Agencies.
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18 | (d) (Blank). Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in | ||||||
19 | addition to any other transfers that may be provided by law, on | ||||||
20 | July 1, 2011, or as soon thereafter as practical, the State | ||||||
21 | Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer | ||||||
22 | the remaining balance from the Comprehensive Regional Planning | ||||||
23 | Fund into the General Revenue Fund. Upon completion of the | ||||||
24 | transfers, the Comprehensive Regional Planning Fund is | ||||||
25 | dissolved, and any future deposits due to that Fund and any | ||||||
26 | outstanding obligations or liabilities of that Fund pass to the |
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1 | General Revenue Fund. | ||||||
2 | (e) There is created the Comprehensive Regional Planning | ||||||
3 | Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. | ||||||
4 | (Source: P.A. 96-328, eff. 8-11-09; 97-72, eff. 7-1-11.)
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5 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
6 | becoming law.
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